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What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Jeff Bezos

Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you’re missionary about.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Capture Curiosity Mission Passion Position Yourself
Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day.
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Experiment Failure Function Success
I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.
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Business Future Important Spend Thinking Time Value
In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
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Build Business Customer Devote Greatness Service Shout Time World
The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.
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Business Customer Location Technology
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
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Brand Business Company Hard Work Person Reputation Try
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
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Business Customer Each Other Experience Motivational Mouth Powerful
If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that’s worth talking about.
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Build Business People Service Worth
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
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Ability Business Human Internet Magic Polite
Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
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Amount Business Company Money Percentage
We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
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Business Growth Inspirational Success Survival
If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.
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Business Customer Eventually Forever Irrelevant Need Young
If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.
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Business Pizza Success Team
I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
JEFF BEZOS

Business Failure Motivational Regret Success
People loved their horses, too. But you don’t keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Horse Love People Ride Work
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
JEFF BEZOS

Character Expense Kindness Money

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

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What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

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